Cook like a Nobel laureate: Economist Abhijit Banerjee’s new book celebrates family meals
The Hindu
Economist Abhijit Banerjee explores the social dimension of food in his latest book with grocery runs, dinner parties and lemon dal
This Nobel laureate cooks everyday. And he believes you should too.
A professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Abhijit Banerjee, shared the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Esther Duflo and Michael Kemer for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty. (Esther, also an MIT economist, is married to Abhijit.)
His latest project, a whimsical cookbook titled Cooking to Save Your Life (published by Juggernaut) is punctuated with humour and exuberant drawings by Cheyenne Olivier. It seems like a dramatic departure from his work as an economist and social scientist. He does not think so.